Thai authorities have charged the captain and crew of a boat carrying 65 Rohingya Muslims with assisting illegal immigration after the group was found stranded on a southern Thai island, police said on Wednesday.
The 29 men, 31 women and five children were discovered on Rawi island in Satun province where their boat had beached due to engine trouble, police said on Tuesday.
The crew — five Myanmar nationals and the Thai captain — were charged with assisting foreign nationals to enter the country illegally, an offence that can carry a prison term of up to 10 years.
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